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New York's Matthew Dear and London based director Morgan Beringer have been collaborating on visuals and videos for quite some time - Beringer plays with texture and morphing colour, working seamlessly with Dear's audio prowess. This latest video is no exception. Together they make something that's hypnotic, transfixing and a little mind-warping. Matthew Dear's latest EP Headcage is out now through Ghostly International.

Todd Terje is the master of the dancefloor, and a magician in the studio. His latest offering 'Inspector Norse' is again proof that Mr Terje has more tricks up his sleeve. From the pulsating rhythm to the ever-so-warm bassline, the track bubbles away to the out edges of your head and back again.

It's been floating around clubs for a bit, but it's now available on the 'It's The Arps' EP - stream it above and buy it here.

When you start a band, do you imagine how it will end? You'd probably hope it ends with the celebration that LCD Soundsystem had, performing their final show surrounds by friends and fans at Madison Square Gardens.

'Shut Up And Play The Hits' is a documentary directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace charting the preparations of this once in a life time performance, the final days of LCD Soundsystem and an intimate portrait of frontman James Murphy. The trailer alone gives us chills.

SBTRKT is both a mysterious and prolific English producer.

He released his self-titled debut long player to critical acclaim last year and he's already releasing new material.

Most recently however, his cover of Friendly Fire's 'Blue Cassette' (recorded for BBC1's Live Lounge) has hit the interweb.

Merrill Garbus, or tUnE-yArDs as you might know her, has a phenomenal voice and is the master of wonky, lo-fi experimental (and simply awesome) sounds. She recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel with her band to perform 'Bizness', taken from her 2011 release w h o k i l l.

In reflecting on the year that has been we asked our extended Modular family some seemingly random questions. To globe-trotters, Bag Raiders, we asked "what are three of your favourite 'world' albums that you've listened to this year?"

They took our musings seriously and came back with the following.

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We're getting close to rounding out these Best of 2011 Lists.

Here Patrik from our New York office reflects on eleven of the releases he most enjoyed from 2011.

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It's the festive season, which means there's sure to be feasts with family and friends, egg-nog, a lot of seeing the wee small hours of the night / morning and probably (hopefully) a heap of good-times with loved ones. With all of that, everyone needs a bit of quiet time too. That's something we've taken from a year of doing office yoga - the importance of balance.

So as we're preparing to spend some quality time with our nearest and dearest, we thought we'd leave you a bit of quiet, reflective sweetness in the form of this mixtape.

Like its predecessor, Modular Mixtape 2 - Midnight, this has been put together by the over-achieving Chris from the A&R Department. He's also shared a few thoughts on each.

Happy Holidays, enjoy!
Modular xxo

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We were running the risk of getting lost in a sea of awesome newness so we asked disco lifers The Swiss to reflect on some of the golden oldies they enjoyed most this year.

Their selection paints quite a picture, given they've spent the great part of 2011 either holed up in a studio finessing their new material, or on the road in support of the recent 'Double or Nothing' EP.

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Heath Mawson is the Modular Label Manager, more commonly known as Heathy Awesome. During his global travels this year he continually documented for us all one of his fine loves in this world - a sunset.

In celebration of Day 7 of our countdown, please enjoy in picture-form some of his favourite snaps of sun downing entitled '7 Of The Best and 4 Of The Rest'.

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